/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3551621
come back in a year and let us know if that store still survives

>>3551627
Honestly I hope it does, all the hipsters have been going there and skipping out on all the thrift stores, comic book/toy stores, etc. Picked up Nightmare Creatures for N64 for $2.99 yesterday at one of the comic book shops.

>>3551631
have you seen any resellers when trying to find cheap games?

>>3551621
I don't get it, why are you saying "What the fuck"??

>>3551646
Not yet but most of them are in the city next to me, there's a big flea market there and it's full of overpriced garbage.

Are the gold Zelda carts not labeled with prices because they are so high you have to ask them or something

>>3551714
They're all the same price as the one labeled

Meanwhile

>>3551728
>>3551731
Those are also expensive as fuck.

>>3551728
Those mint boxed Parodius games...
I would spend waaay too much money there.

>>3551728
>>3551731
at least everything is sealed.

>i'm poor and cheap
>goes into game store, expecting to something cheap
>"WHAT THE FUCK DUDE THATS SO FUCKED MAN WHY IS EVERYTHING SO EXPENSIVE WHY AREN'T THEY SELLING ME THESE FOR A $1 EACH"
Go fucking emulate you faggot, we all know about "prices" at this point so there's no use beating a dead horse over it

>>3551621
Just buy flashcarts until you know which games YOU (i.e. not racketboy, nintendoage) like well enough to buy.

>>3551621
That's a great price for DOOM 64.

>90 fucking dollars for a NES rom you can play in your browser
>Smash Bros for 50 bucks
>Just the loose disc of Spyro is 20 bucks
I'm over this retro fad meme

when is the Wii gonna have demand so everyone just emulates there and fucks off forever

>>3551863
spotted the NEET who has his parents buy him everything

Is that 78$ for fucking ninja crusaders are you fuking shiting me?

>>3551913
You mad, wagecuck? It's alright, I'm sure emulating the game you loved as a kid works enough for you. Don't worry, one day you'll be able to afford that rare SNES game, only when it climbs even more in value!

>>3551926
>spending money on video games
>proud of being a NEET

you're trash, your life is trash and your posting is trash

>>3551932
>willingly stealing games

>insert ad hemonium paired with multiple derogatorial slang terms here

>>3551932
You are just a little poor boy.

>>3551926
Ugh fuck off you frog posting scum.

>>3551793
and cleaned.
and in good condition.
OPs games probably have spiders in them

>>3551950
150 for FF8? Seriously? Hope they go out of business.

>>3551728
Japan does not have a VINTAGE GAMING MARKET, like we do. For them to waste space for 1000s of Famicom carts when you can have them all in a SD card is more sensible in a country with limited space per living quarters.

People can go to Kyoto and buy a Famicom with over 100 games for about 15,000 yen (About $130 USD), but those EXACT same games as NES imports with a NES would be $800 bucks in our market.

We are all just a bunch of buy fags with all the space in the world.

>>3551621
I don't understand.
In an average store radius, how many people are willing to drive somewhere to drop $100+ on old videogames?

At least on ebay you have an entire planet full of retards, but a real store has maybe 5.

>>3552062
Floor space is an issue but Japan just has a culture of not hording things or generally keeping things for a period of time.

This extends to pretty much everything in their lives including food.

So the whole Hikikomori with a room full of action figures and walls of bookcases full of disc cases is even more heinous to Japanese observers than the fact they don't go outside.

>>3551656
Oh is this type of guy.

>>3552045
That's just par for the course in Australia.

>>3551868
See that ruins half the fun for me. Personally I like to be able to go into a store, see some GB games I've never heard of and buy a couple that look interesting to me. However, now that is hard to do with everyone overpricing shit.

>>3552062
This.

There is not a single game that sells for big bucks in American that has an expensive Japanese version.

Earthbound CIB ($1000) = Mother 2 CIB (3500yen/$29)

Little Samson CIB ($900) = Legend of Riki CIB (2000yen/$17)

The list goes on and on

Sooner or later the iphone generation of kids won't download and delete games on a whim will ignore that whole era of gaming and we will be flooded with crap much like Japan is.

>>3552114
Or just look at a LIST of Gameboy games, download them and go.

No fuss, no muss.

>>3552126
Not the same

>>3552124
>Little Samson CIB ($900) = Legend of Riki CIB (2000yen/$17)

Huuuuuh whut?

Negro, there are legit expensive famicom games as well, LICKLE (the wapanese version of Little Samsom) goes for over $150 loose, and that's not to say of games like Battle Formula (Super Spy Hunter), Gimmick!, Wacky Racers, the Famicom cart version of Baby Upa, etc.

>>3551728
>>3551731
>>3551793
>>3552012
The label on the shelf says "junk", and those games have stickers on them saying things like "scratched".

>>3551621
>$8 for ET on Atari 2600
Come on, that's just sad. That cart's more common than SMB/DH.

>>3552304
You should look up how much that common cart(smb/dh) is going for on feebay.

I had a bit of sticker-shock when I saw, as my last time seeing these was in a huge pile for $.99 each at *funcoland*.

>>3552275
Junk is referring to that single handheld, not the entire shelf.

>>3551621

The store owner has to pay for their lease + taxes + utilities + staff + credit card processing with the profit from those games, so of course they're going to be higher than eBay prices.

Damn, at those prices I could sell off my game collection and retire.

This shit is why I love PC gaming. Old games are easy to get digitally for cheap. Old out of print games can be pirated easily or bought for dirt cheap.

Also, there's no fags crying about playing it on authentic hardware cause any PC can play any game.

>>3552062
>>3552083
Which is bullshit.
You guys likely never where at a Japanese Home then.

>>3551768
A little yes. But in opposite to the West-Resellerscum those are atleast CIB for that price.

>>3551621
I wouldn't feel bad about lifting them.

>>3551621
>one grey Adventure of Link is $35, but the other grey AoL is $25
>Resident Evil 2 PS1 $15.99 per disk
>per disk

Jesus Christ

>>3551728
>>3551731
>Hard-off
as in the opposite of Hard-on?

>>3553040
>N64
>Saturn

>>3552275
Fortunately, "junk" condition for Japan is like "EXCELLENT NEAR MINT" to Americans.

>>3552045
They have in my neck of the woods

>>3552129
The games aren't expensive because they're rare. They're expensive because sellers think they're rare.

>>3553202
Are consoles, idiot.
Learn to read and comprehend.

>>3553245
No, that's "used" or "condition: C".

Junk is used for non-working items.

>>3553489
>The games aren't expensive because they're rare. They're expensive because sellers think they're rare.

No, they are expensive because people are willing to pay high prices for them.

If nobody bought Megaman 5 for 89.99 then prices would drop.

>>3551910
>when is the Wii gonna have demand
In English?

>>3551621
Saw this, now off to play Wardner.

Thanks man!

>>3553514
Again learn to read. It was pretty clear.

>>3553518
>Again learn to read
In English?

>>3553514
>>3553519
Hehehe.

>not investing in retro games
literally doubles every 5 years

>>3551621
>Warnder
>No price tag
>They can't even give it away

Poor Wardener gets no love.

>>3551621
Thank god I bought all the shit I ever wanted for my consoles 5 years ago.

>>3553626
Investments can go down, as well as up. Obvious yeah?
It seems that a lot of retro game collectors INVESTORS don't realise this.

>>3553634
Gets love from me! I'm playing it right now! (after seeing it in ops post about a hour ago)

>>3553662
It's not an awful game, good on you for giving it a try. But I think it's funny how unpopular it is.

>>3553672
I've played and completed it a couple of times on the arcade version. Didn't know it came out on the MD/Genesis 'till I saw it here though.

>>3553698
I didn't know it was an arcade game till you mentioned it. I'd never heard of it before finding it in a pawn shop one day and bought it cause my friend thought it was some sort of rpg. Usually not my sort of thing but I find it oddly charming. Makes sense knowing its an arcade game now.

>>3551950
>the state of prices in Australia

>>3553509
Please, if nobody boughts MM5 at 89.99, they will simply "remove it".

The harsh reality of games that do not sell at those prices.

>>3553832
Except that they do. Otherwise they'd still be sitting in bargain bins for $2.

>>3551621
I'd rather go to a store and see an actual selection of desirable titles, even if they aren't priced to move. If they sold them for less than ebay prices, some scumbag would buy them and resell them for a quick buck.

>>3553917
Ha ha ha ha......

They go into the trash or they just DESTROY it, no joke, hipsters are really like that, they dont care.

>price labels on game labels
Fuck those idiots.

>>3551926
or when it becomes cheap because the save battery died

>>3551770

I wish we got those games on western shores back in the day.

EGM would often tease us with screenshots and warn us "you probably won't see these brought over in your lifetime".

>>3551621
>Giving money for these jews
JUST EMULATE

>>3553196
Yes, yes it is.

>>3551621
My local game store charges $89.99 for River City Ransom and $59.99 for TMNT III.

I hate the monopoly they have in this city, everybody here does. My small town relatives have a number of competing game shops I often hit up when I'm visiting, nothing beats paying $2 to $10 for NES games there.

>>3551950
>gametraders
Do they still exsist?

Also that price... I honestly got ff8 for one dollar a year or two ago

>>3553057
Having stayed in 4 homes in japanet me tell you theyre not wrong, the items there were mainly necessary stuff.

>>3551621
This is why I pirate old ass games. Buying off a retailer when you're plan is to play the game is never smart. Fuck collectors, I just want to play some fucking games.

>game store near me has been open for 4 years
>it steadily becomes a nice hotspot for the FGC
>FGC people bring friends to watch
>those friends end up becoming regulars
>Smash at EVO was the start of the downfall
>smash kids start coming in droves
>they bug the shit out of everyone else not playing smash
>FGC people slowly drop in numbers and so does the number of people that browse the store

I know where they went and smash is not invited. Anime fighter fags are more than welcome though.

I'd pick up that Diablo copy, no lie.

PS1 right?

>Majora's Mask cart for $42
Has the price skyrocketed or is the seller just a retard? I got a MM cart at The Exchange a few years ago for a whopping $8.

>>3553020
Me too anon, game collecting is now more an investment than a hobby

I am buying GameCube games left right and center right now because prices are going up pretty damn quickly

>>3554318
I just posted a gray n64 with one controller and THPS on FB for $75 and it sold in under 30 minutes.

I just bought a mint edition Space Channel 5. I was surprised that it goes for so cheap.

You never heard that meme back when that your games would be worth something someday?
Oldskool Collectorfags are cashing in

>>3554164

>>3554516
You can get new copies for $10-$15 on ebay. There is probably a ton of new old stock of that game.

kek, my local game store is usually actually pretty affordable. not my favorite place but they usually have at least a couple of interesting games in there for slightly cheaper than they'd be on ebay at the least. they've got a big shelf full of complete ps1 games though so that's fun to go through, picked up dino crisis for a couple bucks.

>>3551950
haha wtf, ff7 is remarkably cheap these days considering it's a multiple disc game.

>>3552124
jrpgs aren't particularly expensive in japan for the most part, a lot of people compare them to the market for sports games in the west. there are some particularly expensive titles out there though. yuuyami doori tankentai for instance is incredibly expensive although immensely obscure in the west. there's also a mountain climbing simulation game on the ps1 that looks extremely interesting that fetches incredibly high prices over there. it's called great peaks if i recall.

i am immensely jealous of their 1 yen bargain bin games though, i consider myself lucky to pick something up for 5 or 6 bucks at a local store and have it be even remotely interesting.

>>3551910
not for a long time. if you want to prep for the future though pick up several copies of games like little king's story, opoona, dokapon kingdom, etc. though. those are going to be the expensive wii games in the future.

>>3551621
That's the most copies of doom 64 I've ever seen.

>>3554559
I wish that were the case, but it only is if you sell something on eBay or other sites.
Try to sell something to a hipster store and see how much you get, versus what they price the game at once you walk out.

>>3551621
>$90 for a loose copy of Mega Man 5.

>>3556207
That's pretty normal these days. Surprised it isn't 100.

>>3553514
I'm guessing some kind of on-demand retro game service.

>>3556458
>Own CiB Mega Man 5
>20 years from now I could probably put my kids through college from by selling it.

>>3557179
Even if you had a NWC cart it wouldn't put your kids through any decent college in 20 years.

>>3557195
I was being facetious, sir. But still, if retro games keep going up at the rate they're going, and the bubble never pops, then it WILL be worth thousands.

>>3557207
That is very unlikely to happen. And no, I'm not a sour graper, I too have some valuable games

>>3551621
>ET for 8 bucks

>couple years ago
>go into new game store that opened up in the mall
>It's bandwagoner central
>prices are ridiculous
>loose mega man x for 60
>loose rocket knight adventures for 35
>sealed symphony of the night for 600
>N64 (with stock RAM) with hookups and one controller and no games for 100
>boxed 2600 for 300
>ET in glass case with a little note next to it
>"The worst game of all time! Caused the video game crash and millions were recalled and buried. Only a few remain!"
>two hundred and fifty dollarydoos

Somehow they're still in business.

>diablo 35 dollars
>no case
I have 5 copies laying around without cases this has to be a scam.

>>3557457
Backdoor DIRTY laundry deals

>>3557604
Really though, of all the places to have your drug front, a retro game store? Seems like building any sort of inventory, even one you don't plan on moving would be real expensive. Plus you're going to attract a bunch of nerds who would instantly snitch on the place they knew about any shady shit.

>>3557227
You take everything said too seriously. He was exaggerating, then told you he was, then you did it again. I'm not always going to be here to help you recognize these cues

>>3557457
You should have bought a copy of ET on the cheap and then see how much they would have given you for a trade in.

>>3551728
>>3551731
I just want to kill myself already

>>3557671
>retrogamers
>not smoking weed

>>3551621

>>3557604
>>3557671
I went to a retro game store in Newark NJ which I'm pretty sure was a front for some shady shit. When you called them and got to voicemail, it was a message for an auto repair shop. Prices were super jacked up.

>>3558650
Why would you trust anything in that shithole?

>>3553040
I'm one of the few people who collect physical PC games, not just big box but jeweled case too. It's really enjoyable, I take 2 hours out of my Sunday to go to local car boot sales and pick up fun games for £1 each.

It's like night and day compared to collecting console games.

>>3558695
probably because its pretty much worthless to collect pcrom games as you dont even need to emulate to play them, just pirate

>>3558708
That's true, but it's pretty much worthless to collect console games as you don't even need to emulate to play them, just everdrive.

>>3558695
the only problem is cds break down a lot faster than cartridges ever will

>>3551621

That symphony of the night is VERY underspriced by european standards, but I'm suspecting that isn't your point here.

>>3558768
I was going to say that you can get complete US copies for less than that on ebay, but it seems that game has gone up in price since I last checked.

>>3551910
>I'm over this retro fad meme
But clearly not over being a poorfag

>>3560542
I have those games, the fuck are you on about?

What kid DIDN'T have Smash bros, Spyro, and some Megaman game? I'm talking about Spyro, a game that was in the bargain bin for YEARS, with actual cases, being sold as some crusty, scratched up loose disc for $20 being a meme, same with Smash Bros, you COULDN'T trade that in for anything then, everyone had that

kill yourself with your goofy ass attempt of shaming, I actually lived to see these at normal prices after their retail release

>>3558629
That's not bad at all actually. All those games without the console would probably fetch that kind of price.

>>3554123
Easily the most disturbing thing about OP's image.

>>3560732
Those games are only worth about $80 total.

>>3560718
Having those games doesn't make you not a poorfag. Even if you sell them it won't give you a life changing amount of money. You'll still be an angry little poorfag.

My daughter didn't have SSB. I wonder if she's actually lived longer than you to see things. Top kek kid.

>>3561210
Swallowing cum from your daughter's cooch and parading around your little market bubble doesn't make you a richfag or anything other than some idiot trying to sound smart and fit in

Like every other 19 year old faggot trying to buy their way into a generation that was never theirs' begin with

>I wonder if she's lived
I don't know, did you even care if she did tricks to pay off her drugs or was this lame reply the only time you even remembered her? Maybe you should buy her that $50 Smash Bros to try and giver her a childhood, if you're not a poorfag, of course

>>3551728
>>3551768

This is just the premium section of Hard-Off, where they put all the really rare or valuable stuff. Elsewhere in the store they have bins and bins of games, most of them for 108 or 324 yen.

I got Majora's Mask CIB with the expansion pack for like 2,000 yen a couple years ago. Outside of the big cities you can find some great stuff. Not counting MM, since I really just wanted the expansion, I've never paid more than 1500 yen for a game, and I only paid that for Parodius and Cocoron.

Here's my collection after a couple years in Island China, almost every single one was just a couple bucks from Hard-Off.

>>3561557
>Island China

So Taiwan?

>>3561564
Nah, the OTHER Island China. The one where they claim to have their own unique world's #1 NIPPON DAIICHI culture where they hate everything and everyone Chinese but build Chinese architecture, follow Chinese traditions, Chinese religious notions, rely on Chinese characters for their written language, and even appropriate Chinese cuisine as their own.

I wish I could go back in time to when you could buy Super Mario Bros for a quarter at Funcoland, buy a few hundred copies, and sell them for ridiculous prices to idiots today.

>>3561557
>dynamite bowl

Fuck that game. The sweet gorilla on the cover is the best part of the whole thing.

>>3551926
I wish people like you were gassed.

>>3561667
I agree 100%. What a pile of shit.


Good thing Lunar Pool is so great that I don't even have to waste time bowling.

>>3561535
You sound very very mad poorfag. Does it really pain your anus so much that you can't find a McJob that pays enough to let you buy the toys your older brother had. You should be emulating on your wii instead of crying here.

>>3561994
Not that guy, but you two really need to shut up with your whole poorfag/richfag argument.

>>3562089
no u
Did you not read the thread subject and the OP. This thread is for poorfags to bitch about prices. 4chan is a big place. Suggest you find a board where holier than thou shitposting is the theme.

>>3561729
>>3561732
>>3561735
>>3561736
NCL's twitter and LINE accounts are a goldmine of nice images.

>>3562218
>Suggest you find a board where holier than thou shitposting is the theme
Are you sure I'm not already there?

>>Mega Man $79.99
Hey that's way too...
>>Mega Man 5 $89.99
Holy shit

>8th gen and second half of 7th gen were complete garbage
>decide to look for games I skipped out on for my older consoles
>retro gaming/collecting becomes a "cool" thing to do
>prices skyrocketed
I got into this thing in 2010. Too late. I like owning the games I play but I refuse to support these ridiculous prices.

>>3551621

> Emulate everything on my PC
> Pay literally nothing
> Get a gameplay experience that is literally indistinguishable from the original console
> Have softmodded PS2 with 500GB hard drive
> Have GDEMU with 32GB SD card
> Don't contribute whatsoever to reseller scum or retro investment culture


The only downside is I don't get gorgeous CRT visuals, but it's worth it to me to not have to pay $80 for one fucking game.

>>3562681
>Get a gameplay experience that is literally indistinguishable from the original console

Keep telling yourself that, hombre.

>>3562681

You can get "gorgeous CRT visuals" with original hardware and flashcarts.

Actual console hardware hasn't been hit too hard by the nu-wave, nothing like the games at least. With a few exceptions (NES, weebshit) you can still pick up console + all cords + controller bundles for $50 or much less easily. Flash carts are expensive but they're a one-time purchase, and at least you're supporting hardware hackers/science dudes rather than happy merchants.

If it's just the visuals you're after, a $0-40 PC CRT with fake scanlines is practically indistinguishable from the real thing. The only real giveaway for me is that the scanlines are even sharper than on my BVM, but I don't really find this as a problem.

>>3561994
post timestamped collection fgt. I bet you're a pubescent little shit posting on a tablet.

i need to pick up a famicom already, i envy japanese game stores with their massive selections and colorful collections a lot.

>>3562703
>weebshit
anon collecting jp-only systems is significantly cheaper in my experience, barring only the ps2 because installing a modchip on that thing is a trial

i luv pepe and spoopy duh clown

>>3562813
why would you want/need to modchip ps2 anyway? you can buy memory card with Free Mcboot softmod for 5-10€ which allows you to play burned games, play all games regardless of region and boot games from usb stick(although I wouldn't recommend doing that since its laggy and slow) or from HDD with fat ps2.

>>3562701
>Keep telling yourself that, hombre.

Ill bite.

How is it different. In real terms, what way is it not the same experience.

>>3552129
Yeah I was about to say, Samson/Lickle were $200/$20 games once but soon as Samson exploded, Lickle started climbing too. Still a deal compared to it's NTSC counterpart.

Super Spy Hunter/Battle Formula is a rare case where the US version of something is far more common than it's JP counterpart.

Good game too, I know Classic Game Room covered it, did it jump in price from the $15 it used to go for?

>>3561557
Not comfy at all, no CRT. Fail.

>At a "Geek Market Festival"
>Obligatory retro game booth
>Look at prices
>40 for a Nes Zelda cart
>60 for LTTP cart
>70 for Pokemon Emerald
>EIGHTY FIVE FOR SMASH BROS MELEE
>Already own Melee so that doesn't bother me but still
>Talk to the seller
>"So Melee is a multi million seller right? Literally millions of copies exist"
>"Yeah"
>"So why the hell is it 85 dollars used?"
>The reseller goes on a spiel about supply and demand and other Judaism, saying that 'not all the supply is out there and thus it is 'rare'
>Roll my eyes and leave

Why are these people allowed to exist?

Hey. If people don't know better and vintage games are now more popular, I can't blame them.

Some older game stores me are pretty decent, but overall even there I have noticed prices going up as it gets more and more popular.

I just got a Genesis for twenty five bucks as a gift for friends. A few games like Sonic Spinball and Shaq Fu were less than five bucks.

>>3562928
Man. It's just like comic books.

Local monthly 'vintage market' had a damn decent selection of games and I think the prices were good. Haven't been to their main store, but I uave a couple closer. I guess being in the northeast near a big city full of nerds helps keep prices regular.

>>3562807
Famicom is still fairly cheap too. Get on it now, I started a year or so ago and I've already seen prices go up for ones like bucky o'hare and gun nac, a lot of people seem to be just getting famicom versions of prohibitively expensive NES games.

>>3562956
Found the jew

>retro video game store opens last year
>turn in a bunch of no-name ps2 games for store credit
>get some retro games that i've wanted for years

MM1 was 70 dollars there, the guy isn't too much of a jew and is actually very redpilled. I picked up MM3 for 30 bucks. I have a few expensive games myself, my copy of Mega Man Soccer is worth around 60 bucks.

>>3562996
oh, and he knows a guy who makes carts for romhacks and general reproductions. so at some point i'm getting a reproduction of Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen for like 40-45 bucks, which a real one costs 100 loose. Shit's gonna be cash

>>3562921
Can't buy CRTs here, everyone threw them out a decade ago and secondhand shops won't carry them.

Anyway, I don't even have the space for more than one TV. I'm always hoping to find a small Trinitron somewhere but it's not like the US where there are still CRTs hanging around everywhere....the Japper gubbmints didn't give out free anadigi converters so everyone dumped them.

>>3562707
Yet another poorfag demanding time stamped pics of my tits er collection. How quaint. Because, y'know, it's totally impossible people exist in the world who have more vidya than an underage poorfag. Top kek kid.

>>3562873
you actually can't run imports on a free mcboot console, believe it or not. not ideal.

>>3563085
Really? My PAL ps2 slim runs burned NTSC games no problem. Then again I dont have any legit imports so what do I know.

>>3563023
You poor poor fag bastard.

May you find a decent little CRT, I know some guys here will give you shit for not getting a PVM but I'd say any small Sony or Samsung with a decent picture and at least S-Vid is worth the time.

I use a little tiny Samsung thing for mod work testing and its not a bad looking thing at all, just small and not nearly as good looking at my 36" Trinition.

That or an upscaler!

>>3551863
Hey its a shelf collector everyone!

So whats it like having 4k worth of plastic that you don't play? How many subs on your channel faggot?

>>3552114
I totally agree, but unless you want to blow massive amounts of money on games you don't like, it's the wisest option.
I love my collection, but I just can't justify repeatedly blowing $60+ on rarer titles just to realize they're terrible

>>3563092
burned games work but actual originals require a modchip or swapdisc setup, it's really annoying. i've got a bunch of jp ps1 games that i can't play until i pick up a ntsc-j region ps1 or mod my ps2 because of it.

>MFW I post fake craigslist ads leading resellers to dangerous neighborhoods
>MFW the local newspaper the next morning

That'll teach ya to charge 70 dollars for Leaf Green

>>3562983
Good to know I get mistaken as Jewish even online. Tho Greeks these days are more known for losing money.

Actually, I'd say the money making scam of "collectible" comics is far worse than games. Hell, vintage games seem far closer to their actual worth as scarce out of print objects than the really inflated BS we see in modern comics. Though I guess as ' nerd culture ', whatever the fuck that is, gets more mainstream; more people will get into the vidya market. That includes assholes who wanna make a quick buck.

>>3563263
Scans or it didn't happen.

I love how Mike from Cinemasacre / AVGN said how he left a Funcoland with trash bags full of old NES and SNES carts for mostly quarters each. I remember when a few GameStops still had NES carts for cheap. I think even the guys who sold them at the flea at MIT for years and years has gone up in price. Can't blame em if the market has gone up.

>>3554516
mfw

>>3563353
It didn't happen I'm a fag..
One of these days though

>>3563251

Just burn the discs. PS2 isos are super simple, they're all ISO 9660 Joliet files. You get an .iso and burn it.

PS1 games are more of a pain to burn. You need to get .bin and .cue files.

>>3551950
That bubble already burst a while ago because there are no rare final fantasy games on ps1 at all. Dont know what they were trying to pull.

I found FFVII at a good will for the price of a regular dvd / cd. Actually my friend bought it, but I told him about it. And they charged a bit more because of the multi disc case.

I actually have my original couple of dozen NES carts still in their boxes. I don't bother buying any others with boxes, just have the ones I got. I was cleaning my parents basement storage room and found the empty boxes in a big coffee maker box.

>>3563376
Back in ~2002 I thought there was a program that could create a .cue if you had the bin. Is that still around or am I misremembering?

>>3555042
Fuck eBay that shit is going to give me an aneurism. I keep doing stuff like ordering a ps1 game thats listed as complete and going back and looking more closely and the front insert is just a printed jpeg or shit like that so I have to cancel. I stop short of telling them that their game is literally never going to sell though.

>>3563376


I just use imgburn with stock settings for all my PS1, PS2, and DC games on super cheap generic cd-rs and dvd-rs and they work fine.
I can't remember which file you load in for bin/cue but one will give an error and the other won't.

Or are you suggesting ripping the discs and then burning them?

>>3563397

The ps1 games are a relatively small, known set. The .cue information is not found in the .bin itself, but is only a couple tens of bytes long so it's not too hard to just store all the known rips in a little database. Also, 98% of games with only one .bin used the same type of .cue that basically says "1 track, all data".

I think redump.org hosts .cue files. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody scraped it or something and released a program. I think I've seen what you're talking about, try zophar

>>3553507
No it isn't. I bought a DS at a hard off from the ジャンク section and it works 100% fine. The staff explained that it is untested items or something.

>>3562928
Because they are starving for money, was he a sweety bearded fat fuck?

>>3563407
I never ran burned CD on my PS2 but I heard something about it really hurting/killing the laser, especially using cheap CDs or was someone trying to jew me?

>>3563263
people actually do this though

>>3551621
welcome to australian prices

>>3551863
most of /vr/ is neets when we did a poll last time

Just steal them lol fuck 'em

>>3555116
damn I found a dino crisis for a dollar at goodwill too
seems like its pretty common

>>3565106
>a neck-bearded nu-male thought he could scare someone with this

>>3563263
mfw i send them to detriot you gonna get enriched

>>3562707
Of course he is
he thinks people are poorfags because they don't want to pay $20 for a bargain bin tier game like Spyro

Worst generation don't know the actual values, that's why they can say stupid shit like that

>>3563349
redpill me on the comic market

I have some comics, will i be a millionaire

>>3565181
Talking to yourself is a sign of mental illness.

>>3565204
yep.
make sure to buy out all the new releases as they will be valuable some day.
oh and also make sure to give the cashier a handjob.

>>3551621
One thing you have to understand, is that stores that have been around for ages, have the luxury of selling games at a cheaper price, because they built up their stock when retro games were useless to most people and dirt cheap. You don't see a lot of these stores around any more for that same reason, not enough of a consumer base at the time, and a lot of them couldn't afford to tough it out.

Newer stores create stock mostly by buying from other re-sellers at flea markets and e-bay. Sure they get a deal now and then, but at this point and time, you'd be hard pressed to find too many average Joes who are in the dark on the retro vg market. And while most re-sellers are scum, and sell high for greedy reasons, some do want fair prices for all, but simply can't thanks to being raped in the ass by other, greedy re-sellers.

I can't fathom who would pay these prices. I just don't understand. I guess as a 36 year old oldfag who got his first NES for Christmas in 85 and bought up most games for super cheap pennies on the dollar at places like Funcoland I dunno this pain. Anything I didn't acquire and wanted to play I just emulated.

I have my collection of mostly originally owned games, but I have no desire to go back and play on old hardware even though I still have it. Been there done that.

We'll soon be at the point where retro games are so expensive that they're competing with brand new PS4/XBOX ONE/Wii U games. Blame the people who buy retro games primarily as an investment, since they can 'never go down', because of an over-simplistic and inaccurate supply-and-demand interpretation.

>>3553179
Do you think they'll sell me just the first disk?

>>3551621
>contra 39.99
Cheaper than the shit video game store near me that sells it for $50

>>3566047
Not sure about stores where you are but that's not how it is here. I "get a deal" every time I buy something. I simply will not buy from another reseller at silly prices. I mostly get stuff from people looking to just get rid of old stuff for a few bucks and don't want to fuck around on ebay
I buy broken shit from other resellers for a buck a console or so depending on what it is. There are only two guys in my city who repair old consoles and I'm one of them.
I buy obscure items that other resellers would have sitting in their shop taking up space and never sell. I pay next to nothing for these. If they want a price I'm not willing to pay they can sit on it for a few months until they get sick of looking at it gathering dust.

The faggots who run the ebay rat race of buying and selling on razor thin margins aren't serious resellers. They're children or manchildren who can't get a real job.

>>3566060
Me too. Fuck that Funcoland price list brings back da mems. I paid for some old hardware, but the games are outta fucking hand.